BAK on 'otherwise'
Spectral Infrastructure
Future Vocabularies
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
BAK at the Sint Maarten Parade 2023
…harvested from the generous dumpsters and restaurant waste disposal cycles of Utrecht, recycling viable food that would …
Ultrasympathetic Ultratranslation: Re-Languaging Justice
…y Note BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES TO CONNECT TO THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE ROOMS All days are open to the public unless …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VII
… Donate to BAK Your donation helps support BAK’s programs, and our ability to offer solidarity tickets to those who …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges
…and the invisible, the living and the dead, to produce uncanny and unexpected angles from which to feel, think, and see …
Fragments of Repair/Gathering II: The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (online)
…effect on the French left in the struggle against police brutality. **Solidarity tickets are meant for those who would …
Bikewars: FreeShop/Workshop
…ganize many social initiatives such as a “Free Shop” and a weekly vegan kitchen, cooking with vegetables that would …
Closing dinner with Bakudapan Food Study Group
…o please reserve a spot via mail julia@bakonline.org Free places: BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
Time for a Break(down): Reimagining Social Flows in the Not-Yet
…er by the Basic Activist Kitchen. Free places: For each training, BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
Urban Practices and the Future of the City
…ntbrite): €7,50 regular/€5 student discount Solidarity tickets: BAK provides solidarity tickets for those who would …
Lecture: David Harvey on Urban Front
…tbrite): €10 regular/€7,50 student discount Solidarity tickets: BAK provides solidarity tickets for those who would …
Taste Before You Waste: Screening Wasted Waste
…About Taste Before You Waste Around 2013/2012 a group of international students started with picking up food that would …
Performance: Black Quantum Futurism
…ers – reserve your spot here Solidarity spots: For this program BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
BAK x LGW: Performance Patricia Kaersenhout & Angel Bat Dawid
…ging in storytelling, dialogue and spiritual healing as a training for collective resistance and a commitment to living …
Propositions #10: Instituting otherwise
…nd mutual care, as well as the fallacy of institutional politico-ideological neutrality. The notion of “instituting …
Propositions #9/5: Public Program
…student discount Free places: For each training and public program, BAK provides a few free places for those who would …
Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women
… joins forces with other organizations in addressing shared urgencies and developing propositions for “being together …
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
…positions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–ongoing), which seeks to collectively think and act out ways of being together …
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…how to think about the contemporary with and through art in order to build space for envisioning ways of being together …
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…excluding administration fee). BAK offers without-cost solidarity passes to enable the participation of those who would …
Test Department #1
…rcurrent of striving to attain a goal; a specific quality of tension impinging upon the creative processes, which would …
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
…our place through Eventbrite. BAK offers without-cost solidarity passes to enable the participation of those who would …
BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
…how to think about the contemporary with and through art in order to build space for envisioning ways of being together …
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the otherwise
…e public—are transforming. This course begins from the understanding that art has the radical potential to enable the …
Other Survivalisms
…ch in the Gramscian sense of a period in which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”), how do we survive “…
New World Academy #1: Towards a People’s Culture
…a), Lisa Ito, Jose Maria Sison, and Mao Tse-tung (former Chairman of the Communist Party, Beijing). Program *unless …
New World Academy #2: Collective Struggle of Refugees. Lost. In Between. Together.
…Ögüt (artist, Amsterdam, Istanbul, and London), Martijn Stronk (theorist, Amsterdam), and Thomas. Program *unless …
New World Academy #3: Leaderless Politics
…cisco), design studio Metahaven (Vinca Kruk & Daniel van der Velden, Amsterdam), and Dirk Poot. Program *unless …
Instituting otherwise
…l, and exhibitionary projects to the notion of the institution and how to, amidst contemporary challenges, “institute …
Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion
…newed urgency. It brings an essential question to mind: if the space of art is indeed where the world could be imagined …
Call the Witness
…peculates about another possibility, and from within the Roma subjectivity proposes that we imagine how things could be …
AICA Award
…tatement on the website. BAK wants to ‘create a mental space for examining the potential of art to conceive the world …
The Social Studio
… social and political reality around us. In this way, art can contribute to shaping that reality by imagining the world …
Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things
…to an experimental immediacy, calling on the viewer to assume responsibility for the state of the world and to think it …
How Much Fascism?
…n Berlin. Milica Tomic One day, instead of one night, a burst of machine-gun fire will flash, if light cannot come …
Learning Place: Screening and Discussion
…ameters of advanced capitalism, thus leaving seemingly little to no space for artistic work that attempts to imagine it …
FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects
… once embedded and excluded, have the power to both resist the known and propose new imaginaries of how things could be …
FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin
…, but a set of propositions; no script, but an invitation to imagine a “what if” scenario—and, with it, the world …
Creative Time Summit DC: Occupy the Future
…tage to collectively consider what it means to radically transform the current state of democracy—or how to institute …
Global Art Challenges 2016
In the context of the International Conference Challenges of Global Art: Towards an “Ecology of Knowledges” on 28 a…
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back
It suggests that the increasing climatic disasters affecting humans are, as Tolhidan says, “illustrative of nature’s…
To Read the War
…lp us to imagine and organize a world in which livable life in common is not only desired but made possible—the world …
Collective Dictionary: Political
…o conceive of “future vocabularies” in times like ours; of how to think and practice a lexicon of “being together …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
Together in Time
These are some of the topics addressed in this interview with Elizabeth Freeman—queer theorist and author of the books…
Kahanoff’s Levantinism: The Anachronic Possibilities of a Concept
After the Six-Day War, the Egyptian-born Israeli writer Jacqueline Kahanoff deployed the notion of Levantinism to challe…
Dearest Xen (Letters to Lichen)
Through the lenses of xenology (Knouf’s term for the study, analysis, and development of the strange, alien, and other…
No Linear Fucking Time
As an integral part of the exhibition and discursive project No Linear Fucking Time (2021–2022), the impetus is ground…
Living the Not-Yet
Drawing from her work as a prison abolitionist, and speaking specifically to movements and ideas led by Black struggle i…
In solidarity with the Palestinian decolonization struggle and decolonization efforts everywhere
…ssion, and to propose and enact alternatives that align with the struggle and the possibility to build a world together …
To Live the Coming Death
…ment of this thinking, which I am currently working on, will be to give full consideration as to how the dead may count …
